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Employment Act of 1946

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this vein, the bill required the President to submit an annual economic report in addition to the national budget. The report, designated the Economic Report of President, must estimate the projected employment rate for the next fiscal year, and if not commensurate with the full employment rate, to mandate policies as necessary to attain it.
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were natural and that compensatory spending should not be exercised except in the most extreme of cases. Some also believed that the economy would naturally drive toward full employment levels. Others believed that accurate employment level forecasting by the government was not practical or feasible.
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in the Senate as S. 380. The bill represented a concerted effort to develop a broad economic policy for the country. In particular, it mandated that the federal government do everything in its authority to achieve full employment, which was established as a right guaranteed to the American people. In
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Congressional liberals originally intended to secure a federal commitment to "full employment", though the conservative coalition that controlled Congress at the time prevented this language from being included in the final bill. Stein (1969) notes, "The failure to pass a 'Full Employment Act' is as
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coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources . . . to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare; conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment for those able, willing, and seeking to work; and to promote maximum employment, production,
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of Northern Republicans and Southern Democrats controlled Congress. The bill was pressured to take on a number of amendments that forced the removal of the guarantee of full employment and the order to engage in compensatory spending. Although the spirit of the bill carried through into the
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Unemployment levels remained fairly steady after the passing of the act. After 1970, however, the economy began to fluctuate and unemployment rates rose again. The same fears that motivated the creation of the act in 1946 precipitated an amendment in 1978, entitled the
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The act requires the President to submit an annual economic report within ten days of the submission of the national budget that forecasts the future state of the economy, including employment, production, capital formation, and real income statistics. This
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There was strong opposition to the wording of the bill from the business community, which feared government regulation, deficit spending and runaway inflation. Conservative Congressmen, led by Republican Senator
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Conservatives removed all of the Keynesian markers from the final bill, so that it merely encourages the federal government to "promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power."
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The original bill, called the Full Employment Bill of 1945, was introduced in the House as H.R. 2202 and introduced without change by Congressman
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at Harvard, contends that unemployment is caused by insufficient aggregate demand relative to the possible aggregate supply generated by
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Don Yalung-Mathews, "Business Perspectives on the Full Employment Bill of 1945 and Passage of the Employment Act of 1946,"
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J. Bradford De Long, "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946,"
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Employment Act of 1946, its metaphorical bite was gone. The final act was not so much a mandate as a set of suggestions.
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was finally over. A remarkable burst of economic activity and full employment came during America's involvement in
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The result was a bill that made the general goals full employment, full production, and stable prices. President
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Weidenbaum, Murray. "The Employment Act of 1946: A half century of presidential policymaking,"
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management, while the Council of Economic Advisers has focused primarily on discussions of
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significant as the decision to pass the Employment Act." The Act also created the
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Towards a Regulatory Budget: A Working Paper on the Costs of Federal Regulation
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Tackling Unemployment: The Legislative Dynamics of the Employment Act of 1946
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as the Employment-Production Act of 1945 on December 14, 1945 (255–126)
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Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
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The Employment Act and the Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-1976
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Some were uncomfortable with an outright guarantee of employment.
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Congress Makes a Law: The Story Behind the Employment Act of 1946
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Public Law 79-304, 79th Congress, S. 380: Employment Act of 1946
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to develop its strategy. The theory, set forth by economist
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signed the compromise bill into law on February 20, 1946.
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Index

Employment Act
Great Seal of the United States
79th United States Congress
Pub. L.
79–304
Statutes at Large
Stat.
23
James E. Murray
D
MT
Senate Banking
House Expenditures
unanimous consent
Harry S. Truman
Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act
15 U.S.C.
§ 1021
United States federal law
Council of Economic Advisers
Joint Economic Committee
macroeconomic
microeconomic
Great Depression
World War II
Keynesian economic theory
John Maynard Keynes
Alvin Hansen
full employment
Wright Patman

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